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Glossary. 



Labrum Upper lip al)ove the jaws in front of head. 



Ocelli . . . . . . Small simple eyes on top of head in winged forms. 



Prothorax . . . . Front portion of body liehind the head 



Mesothorax . . . . Secondsegment of body beliind prothorax. 



Metathorax . . . . Third segment of ()ody, to which the abdomen is joined. 



Scapular shield . . . Basal portion of wings remaining on the body after the wings 



are detached. 

 Nervures . . . . The veins of the wings, parallel or transverse. 



Costal nervure . . . . Front margin of wing, usually thickened. 



Sub-costal nervure . . The'nervure running parallel to costal, immediately behind. 

 Femora . . . . The thigh of the leg. 



Tibiae . . . . . . The shank of the leg. 



Tibial spines . . . . Spines at the extremity of shank. 



Tarsi . . . . . . The toes or joints of the feet, usually terminating in a double 



claw. 

 Abdomen . . . . The hind portion or body proper, generally consisting of 9 



segments. 

 Cerci .. .. .. Short {jointed appendages on either side at the top of the 



abdomen. 



Bibliography of Papers dealing with Australian 

 White Ants. 



(1) Australasian, l2th May, 1899. 



North Australian Curiosities. Gigantic Ant Hills. 

 An interesting article with illustrations of the Termite Nests near Port Darwin. 



(2) Baumann, E. 



Chemesche Untersuchung von Bruchstuchen, &c. 

 The analysis of a piece of a termite's nest brought from Somerset, N. Queensland, 



by Prof. Reuleaux. 

 S. B. Ak. Berlin, 1882. Pp. 419-424 (with wood-cuts). 



(3) Brauer, F. 



Reise der Novara. Zoology. Neuroptera, pp. 45-49, 1865. 

 In this is described several Australian species of termites. 



(4) Cunningham, P. 



Two years in New South Wales. 2nd ed., 1827. Vol. I, p. 239. 



(5) D'Albertis, B. L. M. 



New Guinea ; what I saw and what I did. Vol. I, pp. 229, 355, and 405, 1881. 

 Notes their presence on Cape York and Yule Island. 



(6) Desneaux, J. 



A propos de la Phylog^nie des Termitides. 



Annales de la Soci^te Entomologique de Belgique, XLVII, 1904. 

 In this paper the author goes into the classification of the termites, and groups them 

 in three sub-families, separating my Genus Mastotermes from the Calotermitince, 

 and making it the type of the first sub-family under the name of Mastotermitiuce. 



(7) Desneaux, J. 



Wytsman's Genera Insectorum, pt. 25. 

 Isoptera, Family Termitidre, 1904, pi. 1-2, pp. 1-42. 

 This is a complete list of all the termites described up to the date of publication. 

 He places my species of Glyjifotermes in the Genus Calotermes, to which they do 

 not belong, and groups a number of forms whicii are quite well enough defined 

 to have generic rank as sub-genera. In the Genus Enttrmcs he places a number 

 of species which belong to the Genus Termes, and other genera, and leaves them 

 in a very unsatisfactory state 



